NEWS HR
June 14, 2016
A care home worker has been struck off after a series of blunders put disabled residents at risk. Michael Haire was investigated following complaints about his time as a support worker at Capability Scotland’s Upper Springland centre in Perth. Now a Scottish Social Services Council panel has found Mr Haire guilty of misconduct over a catalogue of “serious” failures between April 2012 and September 2014. The body ruled that Mr Haire, from Perth, had given the wrong medicine – or wrong dosages – to four patients. He had also failed to record giving medicine to a service user and also didn’t report another occasion when a different resident had refused their medicine. In September 2014, he failed to draw up a record sheet before giving medication to patient named only as HH, which meant the user got more medication than was prescribed. In a report by a SSSC sub-committee, a spokesman said the care worker had been well trained in the practices of administering medication and had “significant experience” in the care sector.
June 14, 2016
Lanarkshire Housing Association Ltd (LHA) has announced that James Stevenson has retired as chief executive after more than 33 years’ service with the Association.
June 8, 2016
Eamonn O’Neal, group managing editor of Trinity Mirror Regionals, has been appointed chief executive at St Ann’s Hospice.
May 25, 2016
A north-east housing association has appointed the first female chairperson in its 97-year history. Berni Whitaker is the new Chair-Elect at Darlington-based Railway Housing Association and officially takes up her role in July.
May 25, 2016
A care home director has been killed at her “dream home” in Weybridge. Sonita Nijhawan, 38, was discovered in her new-build mansion in Crossfield Place in St George’s Hill on Saturday morning, alongside a 46-year-old man who was suffering “serious” injuries.
May 23, 2016
BrighterKind is being investigated for neglect at Woodbury House and The Berkshire in Wokingham.
May 23, 2016
A sacked private care home manager has been jailed for 12 months for secretly groping two young women in a seven-month campaign as a sex pest. Robert Mills has been jailed for 12 months and ordered to sign on the National Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.
May 23, 2016
One of Wales’ largest social landlords has appointed a new chief executive, more than six months after the sudden departure of three senior figures. RCT Homes has appointed Paul Davies as its new chief executive.
